Lago blog · Jul 2026
Launches Lago Agent SDK pricing mode, which prices LLM calls into billing events and supports markup-based reselling of AI usage.
Company research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 30, 2026
Overview
Lago is an AI-native, open-source billing infrastructure company for usage-based, subscription, and hybrid pricing. It combines an API-first billing engine with a visual interface, and is positioned as a transparent, self-hostable alternative to proprietary billing systems.
Primary product
Open-source billing infrastructure for usage-based, subscription-based, and hybrid pricing models
Founded
2021
Headquarters
Paris, France
Team size
11-50
Work style
Flexible
Industry
IT Services and IT Consulting
Sub-industry
Open-source billing infrastructure / usage-based billing software
Offices
Paris, France
Remote Europe
Business model
open-source software
cloud SaaS
self-hosted enterprise software
premium add-ons and professional services
Funding
People & investors
Leadership
Co-founder & CEO
Co-Founder (Product)
Head of Engineering
Engineering Lead
Head of Growth
Head of Customer Support
Work & culture
Engineering-led, open-source, trust-first culture with fast release cadence. The team emphasizes that selling an open-source product starts from trust rather than a cold pitch, and that Lago ships new versions every 2-3 weeks.
Work style
Flexible
Product & market
Pricing
Open-source core with Lago Premium cloud or self-hosted plans, plus add-ons and custom professional services for advanced features and support.
Differentiators
- —Open-source and self-hostable codebase
- —API-first billing infrastructure
- —Supports usage-based, subscription, and hybrid pricing
- —Transparent and payment-agnostic architecture
- —Cloud, VPC, and on-prem deployment options
- —Enterprise-grade RBAC, audit trails, and SOC 2 Type II positioning
- —Built for high-volume event ingestion and complex billing
- —White-label embedded billing option
Technology
Go
Ruby
ClickHouse
Kafka
Redpanda
Docker
Kubernetes
PostgreSQL
Redis
Terraform
Python
TypeScript
Node.js
AGPLv3
Customers
Mistral AI
PayPal
1NCE
Groq
Juni
Swan
Blacksmith
Lune
Competitors
Stripe Billing
Chargebee
Orb
Metronome
Zuora
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
$1M-$10M
Estimated monthly visits
49.6K
Traffic estimate as of Jun 2026
Latest news
Lago blog · Apr 2026
Customer story showing Lago used by Blacksmith to support rapid growth and usage-based billing for CI/CD.
Lago blog · Mar 2026
Introduces Lago Embedded, a white-labeled billing system aimed at platforms that want to ship billing capabilities quickly.
ClickHouse · Mar 2026
External case study describing Lago's scale on ClickHouse Cloud, including ingestion of up to one million events per second for a large customer.
Lago blog · Nov 2025
Customer story about Lune using Lago for API pricing and flexible monetization; also notes an angel investment from Lune's founder.
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